[Idr] why has 4096 bytes limit on BGP messages size?

"Fenggen Jia" <fgjia@mail.zjgsu.edu.cn > Thu, 14 June 2007 05:02 UTC

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From: Fenggen Jia <fgjia@mail.zjgsu.edu.cn>
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hi,all,
      I am wondering why BGP has 4096 bytes limit on all its messages,should we leave it to the implementator to decide,thanks!
Yours,Fenggen


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